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Love Gone Bad: Avoiding a Valentine’s Nightmare

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Jeff Levine

Falling in love doesn’t require maturity. Babies fall in love everyday. “Falling” in love is basically about pleasure and receiving perfect mirroring – caught up in images and fantasies about the joy, excitement and pleasure another will bring into your … Continue reading →

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Communicate Better with the Ones You Love

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Jeff Levine

We all experience times when someone we love says or does something that hurts us to one degree or another. In the wake of these painful moments we may regret how we handled ourselves. Unfortunately in such circumstances, the instinctive … Continue reading →

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Wounded Parent – Wounded Child

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jeff Levine

Watching the film “Love & Other Drugs” this Sunday morning, a pharmaceutical salesman, Jamie, begins a “tempestuous romance with a free-spirited Parkinson’s patient.” Unexpectedly, he falls desperately in love with Maggie Murdock who is afraid to let herself love (“Who … Continue reading →

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I Love You – Keeping The Promise!

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Jeff Levine

Aretha Franklin sings – Does he love me? I want to know. How can I tell if he loves me so? After speculation about whether it’s in his eyes, arms or gifts, the song concludes “It’s in his kiss! Kisses may communicate … Continue reading →

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Real Men Don’t Rape

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jeff Levine

On a morning early in November 1995, I sat reading the Sunday Journal News in a Nyack coffee shop — Assault, attempted rape charged; D.A.: two men tie up, beat Rockland woman.”The words leapt off the page grabbing my attention — … Continue reading →

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